Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (February 12, 2021)
The Faltering Escalator of Urban Opportunity; What does it mean when water is traded as a commodity?; Bill Gates On The Next Crisis; The Economics of Biodiversity: the Dasgupta Review
Read: The Faltering Escalator of Urban Opportunity: The migration of less-educated and lower-income individuals and families toward high-wage cities has reversed course. Since 1980, college-educated workers have been steadily moving into affluent cities while non-college workers have been moving out. [by David Autor, MIT]
Read: The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: This Report analyzes the geopolitical implications of the global energy transformation driven by renewables [via the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) ]
Listen: What does it mean when water is traded as a commodity? Water futures are now being traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Listen: Designing more effective interventions to prevent childhood stunting: Evidence from Nigeria [via VoxDev Talks]
Watch: The Economics of Biodiversity: the Dasgupta Review | The Royal Society
Chart of the Week: The Most Innovative Economies in the World [via Statista]
Watch: Bill Gates On The Next Crisis
